Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:38:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Guennadi Liakhovetski <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.18-rc6] ext3 memory leak |
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It is expected that in this situation the number of buffer_head objects will > be approximately equal to the number of pagecache pages. So once the pagecache > has grown to consume all available memory and the kernel starts to perform pagecache > reclaim, the buffer_head count should stabilise.
Ok, thanks that's exactly what I had to know - makes sense now.
Sorry for a false alarm.
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